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How long does it take to comfort someone? Does an egg need to be fried rather than boiled? They are meeting for the first time; their discussions cover stress, responsibility and participation. Their håkan möllergren goal is better home care, but they approach the issue from different perspectives. Coffee and cake are laid on in the meeting room. Their studies are about older people, ageing and what living with elderly care is like.
They are of the opinion that the users of home care services are often overlooked within research. They are investigating what it is like to work within elderly care, from the perspective that work environment research is necessary in order for home care to work more effectively. Despite their differing approaches, the researchers agree håkan möllergren home care needs to be improved — both for the elderly and for those working.
Glenn Möllergren
Gerd Johansson is a veteran of research into the work environment of home care. She has been studying work environments in healthcare since the s, and home care since She explains that the work of home care has always been heavy and stressful, but that it has become even håkan möllergren in recent years. At the same time, staff are to manage more home visits in a shorter space of time.
The scheduling is tight, and workers are in a constant race against time.
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She finds agreement from Håkan Jönson, elderly care researcher since the late s and another veteran in the area. He goes on to argue that the race against time also affects older people at home. The time allotted rarely takes into account the fact that a service in the home is an interaction between the staff member and the user of the service, and as a result the time needed can vary.
After all, how do you actually calculate how long it takes to comfort someone? This interaction is also reflected in the fact håkan möllergren users of home care services make changes to their daily routines in order to try and reduce the stress on staff. That is clear from the interviews that Glenn Möllergren has conducted with older people who use home care.
Choosing a fried egg instead of boiled, because it is quicker to prepare — despite the older person actually preferring boiled eggs. Putting on clothes that are easier for staff to deal with — even though they want to wear other clothing. Refraining from practicing their leisure activities since the user of home care services knows that they can only get help in walking to the park, not to watch a football match.
The interaction between the users of the service håkan möllergren staff makes the older people an unacknowledged part of the workforce. Christofer Rydenfält, though, thinks that the message gets confused and that real work environment problems are obscured if it is not clear whose work environment we are dealing with.
But despite the increasing need for adequate home care, cuts and austerity measures that affect home care are implemented. With the coffee drunk, the time has come to round off the conversation.
One person’s workplace, another’s home
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